Once again, I’m encouraged and inspired by just how much great conservative writing is going on out in the blogosphere. There’s a wealth of great information and I share just a small sampling of some of my personal favorites, in this edition of Pup’s Picks.
Great write-up of Sarah Palin’s talk at the Salina, KS, Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet at Conservatives4Palin.
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up, and I’ll be watching. Was glad to learn about the halftime show at FREEDOM EDEN and now look forward to that. I usually use that time to pick up lint and pressing things like that, but this I’ll watch.
The Tree Of Mamre wrote a post that I just have to ask you to read, as it expresses my thoughts far better than I’ve been able to articulate, on the search for and insistence upon that one “perfect” candidate.
Kathy has been busy this week, cranking out terrific post after terrific post. I had a hard time choosing just one so I chose two. The battle for America’s youth is revving up, but thanks to Watching The Nation and others, it won’t go unnoticed. And I particularly liked this video of Morgan Freeman on Black History Month. What a great answer to Mike Wallace.
Left Coast Rebel reports on more Obama goings-on that gives me chills. This is alarming stuff, and even more alarming, might just be the tip of an iceberg.
The Reaganite Republican shares yet another in the long line of continuing missteps Obama makes with our various global neighbors. I mean, this guy offends people without even trying. And not just any people, but heads of states.
Kris, at Reflection by Kris, sees the big picture and the point un-made in this sad story.
Waste, waste, waste the taxpayer’s (that’s you and me) money. These people can’t do anything right, and protecting our borders shouldn’t be this hard. Thanks to Frugal Cafe Blog Zone.
It’s Only Words found a very interesting blog post written by a progressive who is furious with Obama, fun reading.
Andrew at Roman Around has a delightful commentary on how tricky the English language can be, especially when you’re a Harvard Law School grad. Loved this!
North Carolina has decided to update their high school curriculum, and in doing so, have chosen to start America’s history with the year 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes’ administration. Seems funny to me, especially for one of the original thirteen colonies to skip over that part entirely.
Well, let’s see. Did anything really important happen before 1877? That’s certainly the year I always think of when I think of American history.
If any of you can think of anything that the students will be missing out on, let me know. I’m just blank.
Just like North Carolina students will be.
Oh, and they’re going to add a course called Global Studies. It will focus on the environment, and other things. Sorry I missed out on that one.
I hope we see a huge increase in homeschooling in North Carolina, and a big spike in sales of out-of-print American history books. You know, the ones that include all that minor silly stuff that happened before 1877.
Sounds suspiciously like a move to completely eradicate any knowledge whatsoever of how America came into existence, the writing of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and a time when soon-to-be Americans fought for freedom from taxation without representation and the tyranny they despised.
If you can’t beat the Tea Parties, just stop teaching about the first one.
If you don’t want people hankering after freedom, just ignore that first shot heard ’round the world.
Not to belabor the point, but I found an interesting article yesterday after I had posted about Sarah Palin disappointing many of her supporters. I was browsing around, trying to find out if I was the last Palin supporter left, when I visited Team Sarah and read a post there that echoed my thoughts, and shed light on the Democrats’ upcoming strategies, which we all need to be aware of.
Regardless of your thoughts on Palin, I highly recommend reading the 2010 Democrat Strategy: Divide and Conquer, over at Team Sarah. Even leaving Sarah Palin out of it, I can easily see how they will use this strategy against us.
Sarah Palin is taking some criticism from former supporters since the announcement yesterday by Rand Paul’s campaign of her endorsement of Paul. Rand Paul, son of Ron, is running for the GOP spot in the November US Senate race. Bill Johnson, a businessman and seen as more of a ‘grass-roots’ type of candidate, is running against Paul in the primaries for the privilege for then running for the senate seat.
Johnson has become a grass-roots favorite of people who have been involved in attending and organizing Tea Parties. Rand Paul’s campaign has apparently attempted to claim that he is the “Tea Party candidate” which has apparently infuriated many of those conservative Kentuckians who are involved with Tea Parties, as they claim it’s not true.
Bottom line, yesterday Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul and made a $2000 donation to his campaign through her PAC. Some of her most ardent supporters have, since yesterday, deleted their Twitter accounts set up solely for supporting Palin, terminated blogs set up to support Palin, and verbally expressed their severe disappointment.
In short, they are done with her. That is their right, and I make NO judgement of them.
I only wanted to say here, today, that I remain a staunch supporter of Sarah Palin. It doesn’t mean that I can say here today that I “will vote for her for president if she runs.” Much can happen in two years and I have no idea who will decide to run in 2012.
I do know that Sarah Palin speaks out bravely on her beliefs of what the values are that serve America best. I agree with those values.
I know that Gov. Palin is a real person, and is no more perfect than I am. I probably couldn’t count the people I’ve disappointed over the years with choices and decisions I’ve made. Not because those decisions were wrong, but because they weren’t the ones others wanted me to make.
Sarah Palin is, in my maybe-not-so-humble opinion, a woman of character and moral courage. I believe that her loyalty to McCain, which also has many upset, is a product of her character, rather than any belief on her part that McCain represents all that she agrees with. She has never said a negative word about McCain, and she has certainly had ample opportunity to. She is just that type of person.
I do believe in climate change. Political climate change that is. Looks like Chicago has entered a cooling period following the Obama heat wave of last year. This is great news. Friend James at Reaganite Republican fills us in.
“Remember when Dick Morris and others said a Brown victory would mean the GOP could win anytime, anywhere… ?
Lech Walesa was in Chicago last week to endorse GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski. Walesa, former president of Poland, was caught on tape and interviewed by Founding Bloggers, and answered in the affirmative when asked if he thought America was leaning toward socialism.
I thought his words particularly poignant when he stated that America was no longer the leader of the world politically and morally. He’s right. But I believe we can be again.
Think I’ll do some more reading about Mr. Andrzejewski, he sounds promising. I have no idea what kind of chance he has of winning, as he is running on the pledge to forensically audit Illinois’ books and expose corruption by making the details of the audit available to the public. We will add him to our watch list.
Please watch Pres. Walesa and listen to his words. He is a man who knows whereof he speaks.
NOW, the National Organization for (of?) Women, has lost both credibility and relevance over the past many years. As I recall, they began with wanting equal pay for equal work for women, expanded opportunities in the corporate world, and equal treatment under the law in all situations. All innocuous enough goals, even laudable. [...]
It’s been a great week for America. The triumph of Lt. Colonel Scott Brown in his quest for the US Senate, a man with conservative values and principles, in the bluest of the blue states is very encouraging. The Supreme Court gave a monumental opinion protecting free speech. The Demcare health care control bill is [...]
…but you know that.
The White House spin on the not-even-close-win of Scott Brown in Massachusetts is that the “same anger that swept” Obama into the White House propelled Brown into the US Senate seat. Therefore, it follows, as day follows night, that Obama desperately has to show us all how he’s on the side of [...]
Above all else, we must not ease up and think that the war to keep the American way of freedom and prosperity alive is over with Brown’s win. This battle is over, and we won it, but there are many battles still to come. We must not now take [...]
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Words To Remember
“From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”--
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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."--Ghandi
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."--Norman Thomas, presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America, 1928-1948
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I think over again my small adventures.
My fears, those small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing.
The only thing.
To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world.
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